The Pacific Home, as owned by Chuck Jensen/National Passenger Car Co., is now in service with an Amtrak #800xxx-series number, specifically #800971.

Rainier Rails wrote:

Pacific Plateau to #1433 (1970) to Amtrak #2626 to HEP #2434 (1980). Stored in 2001 and later sold (when??) to ITAX. Resold (when??) to STI-Global, converted in 2011 to rail analyzer car, renamed Michael D. Harding, and leased to BNSF.

Pacific Castle was acquired by AOE and after they folded, was stored at their shops at Western Junction, WA (south of Olympia and northeast of the twin towns of Centralia-Chehalis, located where the former MILW Tacoma & Eastern line to Centralia-Chehalis interchanged with Weyerhaeuser's Chehalis & Western). Also stored there was former NP baggage car #233. I had identified the #233 several years ago, but just now came across the following photo of the Pacific Castle, both identifying it and confirming that it was still intact (moved from Western Jct. down to Chehalis) as of January of this year. Also a photo of the #233 taken the same day.

Does anyone know who AOE acquired the #233 from, and when? Also, was the Pacific Castle acquired directly from Amtrak, or was there another party in between? Given the later retirement date (2002), I'm making the educated guess that it was acquired directly for their proposed "AOE II" trainset, shortly before they folded.

Also, with the cars being moved from Western Jct. down the ex-MILW to Chehalis itself, was this done with a change in ownership?

Side note: also photographed there that day was Simpson Timber Co. SW1200 #1202, built in 3/59 as FW&D #610, with at least one other Simpson switcher seen in the background.

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